Word: effort
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...church and to the hardships she had suffered in Japan as the widow of an American. Mrs. Morgan herself, a charming elderly lady, who seemed more Occidental than Japanese, was overjoyed to hear news of her American relations, who are all devoted to her and have made every effort to see that she is taken care of. Far from being a rich woman, as intimated in your article, all her income is frozen in the United States...
...with him for an extended discussion, during which I told him that we were prepared to do anything possible to eliminate those features of the film which the Legion found objectionable. From that day on, officials of the Legion and executives of our company met almost daily in an effort to agree on changes. Two days after the picture opened, I proposed that a prologue be added to the film, and gave notice to Father Masterson that the way would be open for other changes...
...remnant of New Dealers in the palace guard called the speech "a great document." What was quite apparent was that the President had drastically changed his campaign strategy. Harry Truman, the man who privately prefers the middle of the road, had publicly swung to the left again in an effort to help Candidate Truman...
...newsman (San Francisco Evening Post, New York World), Charley was hired in 1929 by John J. Raskob, then Democratic National chairman, in an effort to rebuild the party. A master of the sly phrase and rankling innuendo, he painted the Republicans as inept, as the party of privilege, of the "corporation lawyer" and the rich industrialist. He hung the depression around Hoover's neck and kept it there. He made a mockery of Hoover's optimism and never let the country forget Hoover's theme that prosperity was just around the corner. He never let succeeding G.O.P...
...effort to narrow the search down, detectives have asked officials of the Roxbury concern, from which the car was stolen, to have any employee who used the auto report to headquarters to have his fingerprints checked...